Milan city transport. Italy, Lombardy - rail transport Suburban trains in Lombardy

Public transport in Milan is well developed and popular with both locals and tourists. The ATM transport system includes buses, trams, metro and trains. There are also city bike rentals and numerous taxis in Milan.

You can plan your route on the Milan city transport website: www.atm.it/it/Giromilano/.

Metro and commuter trains in Milan

The metro - mostly underground - runs both through the city center and in the nearest suburbs. Currently, four lines are operating and one is under construction. Metro stations are designated by the letter "M".

The metro has three lines. "Red" stretches from west to north from Fiera Milano/Bisceglie to Sesto 1° Maggio FS. "Green" from southwest to east from Assago Milanofiori Forum to Gessate. "Yellow" from south to north - from San Donato to Comasina.

S-Bahn trains also run throughout Milan and its suburbs. There are 10 lines:

• S1: Saronno - Milan - Lodi
• S2: Milano Rogoredo - Mariano Comense
• S3: Milano Cadorna - Saronno
• S4: Milano Cadorna - Camnago
• S5: Varese - Milan - Treviglio
• S6: Novara - Milan - Pioltello
• S8: Milano Porta Garibaldi - Lecco
• S9: Saronno - Milan - Albairate
• S11: Milano Porta Garibaldi - Chiasso
• S13: Milano Bovisa - Pavia

Electric trains and trains passing through Milan and its suburbs are also considered urban modes of transport and can be used to move around the city. The main station, Milano Centrale, is the second largest in the country after Rome; there are also two smaller stations - Milano Cadorna and Milano Porta Garibaldi. Suburban trains of the LeNord system only depart from Milano Cadorna station. Trains on the national railway system Trenitalia depart from Milano Centrale and Milano Porta Garibaldi.

Trams, buses and trolleybuses in Milan

Trams in Milan run on 17 routes within the city. One line has also been launched to the suburb of Limbiate. The total length of roads is 115 km. In addition, there are 82 bus routes and 4 trolleybus routes throughout the city. Buses and trolleybuses do not operate on regular routes at night. However, there are several night buses that run from 2:00 to 6:00.

Getting around Milan by ground transport is easy even for a visiting foreigner. The website of the ATM transport system will help you understand the routes and schedules: www.atm.it ..

Tickets can be purchased at stations and kiosks marked with the letter "T". You cannot buy tickets from tram and bus drivers.

A ticket for 1 trip within 90 minutes (transfers are possible) costs 1.5 euros. Travel card for 10 trips - 13.8 euros. A pass for 24 hours from the moment of validation is 4.5 euros, for 48 hours - 8.25 euros.

Prices for public transport tickets

The cost of one trip within 90 minutes after composting is 1.5 euros.

Carnet for 10 trips costs 13.8 euros. Each ticket must be validated before travel. Carnet cannot be used by multiple passengers at the same time.

A BI4 or 4-Journey Integrated Ticket is valid for four journeys, each lasting no more than 90 minutes. The peculiarity of the ticket is that on weekends and holidays it can be used for an unlimited number of trips from morning until 13.00 or from 20.00 until the end of the day.

The 1-day pass is valid for 24 hours after validation. Costs 4.5 euros.

The 2-day pass is valid for 48 hours after validation. Price - 8.25 euros.

The evening ticket is valid for an unlimited number of trips within one day from 20.00 to midnight. Price - 3 euros.

To pay for baggage allowance, you must purchase a special ticket costing 1.5 euros.

Cars in Milan

Getting around Milan by car is not convenient, and in some areas of the city it is completely impossible: travel to some areas of the center of Milan is simply closed. In addition, the city is a member of the European Ecopass system, which imposes a surcharge on vehicles that enter the city and pollute the environment. Thus, Milan is one of the anti-leaders in terms of the number of cars per thousand people.

Apart from the high cost of using a car in Milan, it is also very difficult to find parking spaces in the city. Arriving in Milan from the suburbs, many people prefer to leave their cars in park-and-ride stations near commuter train stations. However, you can enter the center - right up to the so-called Area C, or Cerchia dei Bastioni.

You can leave your car in one of the paid parking lots.

Blue color marks on the city streets indicate places where a car can be parked for a fee and for a limited time. The rules and costs are indicated on the nearest information boards. The paid Sosta Milano ticket must be located under the windshield in a visible place during parking. However, in some places you can pay for parking time via SMS.

You can stop on streets marked yellow only with special permission.

If cars are parked incorrectly or if parking is unpaid, city services have the right to tow the car and issue a fine to the owner. Owners of towed vehicles should contact the Ufficio Rimozioni (Impound Office) at Via Beccaria, 19, telephone 02-77-27-02-80-1.

In addition, Milan has a number of car-sharing systems. The most popular are GuidaMi, Car2go, E-vai, Enjoy, etc.

Taxi in Milan

Traveling around Milan by taxi is not cheap. It is especially worth considering that traffic jams are common in the city during rush hours. Taxis can be ordered in advance for a specific time. If you call to order a taxi for the near future, the operator will tell you how long it will take to get the car to you.

Cycling in Milan

Many locals prefer to get around Milan by bicycle. Tourists can also join them. There are several rental points in the city. The cost for 1 day is about 10 euros.

City tours are also offered on fancy Segways. A 3-hour journey through the most beautiful streets of the city with a guide - from 90 euros.

Tourist transport in Milan

Tourist double-decker buses operate around Milan using a hop on hop off system. Three routes have been developed, each of which lasts 90 minutes non-stop. The routes include visits to the city's most popular attractions. The tour is conducted with the help of an audio guide in Italian, Russian, French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. There are special audio guides for children! One ticket is valid for 48 hours from the moment of validation on all three lines. A ticket for an adult costs 25 euros, for a child from 5 to 15 years old - 10 euros. You can order them on the website

Italy is a convenient country for independent travelers, I will not add the phrase “very convenient”, because I still had several complaints after a specific encounter with the system associated with movement along the chosen route and the service of stations.

During preparation, the main assistants, of course, were the international website of the Italian railways http://www.trenitalia.com/

and regional website Railways of Lombardy http://www.trenord.it/it/home.aspx, which is a subsidiary of Trenitalia.

Train tickets can be purchased at station ticket offices, but we must take into account that at small stations there are small stations and ticket offices simply do not exist in them! In this case, you need to take care of the ticket in advance. There were stations like this on my way: Varenna and Pavia Certosa.

But here is a photo of a train station in an ordinary small city, like Lecco, with everything: a ticket office and an information point in one window, a machine for purchasing tickets yourself, to the right of it.

A ticket purchased at the box office is valid for two months, on it you can travel one way from point A to point D, if you wish, go out for a walk at points B or C, but do it within 6 hours, otherwise the carriage will turn into a pumpkin!

On such a ticket only the direction is indicated: the beginning and end of the trip, of course there is no date, no time, no train number, and especially no platform number. If there are transfers, they are indicated on the ticket, but also only the name of the station.

Therefore, it is simply physically necessary to know the detailed information on the purchased ticket. To do this, I studied the schedule on railway websites while still at home, and this was an almost nightly task for me in hotel rooms before each trip further along the route.

What I really liked was detailed passenger warning system:

At some stations, mainly in big cities, information is also provided in the following format:

On modern carriages there is also a ticker outside with complete information about the flight. But once there was a case: on the carriage and on the board on the platform there were different train numbers, panic, everyone was fussing, but the time and place of arrival converged. About 5 minutes before departure we finally boarded this train and it went in the right direction.

Tickets can be purchased from special machines, which are available at every Italian train station, even the smallest ones, where there are no ticket offices, at least one machine, but it must be there.

These machines are easily recognizable by the inscription: "Biglietto Veloce/Fast Ticket", which translates as “Fast Ticket,” but to purchase you just need to know a few phrases in Italian-English. At Milano Central, for example, these machines are installed everywhere, visible and invisible. They are also available in a special hall for selling tickets ( biglietteria), there is also directly on the platform.

If the Regionale train ticket purchased at a cash register or vending machine without specifying the date, time and place, then it must be composted right before planting. Special devices in the form of boxes green,

or yellow

flowers with the inscription Convalida installed at the entrances to platforms, on the platforms themselves and in station buildings, and you just need to insert a ticket into it at one end. The machine prints the time and date of composting on the ticket and makes it valid for travel. If the trip includes a transfer, then in the transfer city there is no need to validate the ticket a second time.

By the way, in some cities on the platforms further than the first one there are no composting machines, remembering that to carry out this procedure you had to return to the station, but what if you are in a hurry and the train is already leaving? There is an inspector and his little hole-punching machine.

Tickets can be purchased online.

This option always suits me the most, because I don’t want to waste time buying them on the road, looking for ticket offices, and especially standing in lines, but to buy a ticket on the website Italian Railways http://www.trenitalia.com/ you need to register on it first. I read that you can buy tickets without registration, but it didn’t work out for me, perhaps this is outdated information.

A million different articles have been written and rewritten about the site itself, about registration, buying tickets, I’ve convinced myself, but it takes time until you find the information you need. In my advice, I will only highlight those positions that caused me difficulties. On the English tab of the Training Register we enter all the required information. When we get to the information in the window: in English this is Tax code / VAT*, and in Italian codicefiscale, we use the auxiliary link http://codicefiscale.it/. Having entered the required data there, we get a code consisting of letters and numbers and duplicate it in the required window in Register.

In the requested address box we put the address of the hotel where we will stay; if there are several of them, we write the address of the first one, write the phone number starting with +7.

My trip involved traveling only on regional trains, but on Italian websites there is one caveat: tickets for regional trains begin to be sold only 7 days before the trip. Therefore, I threw just a few tickets into the cart (the principle of an online store), emailed to me. I received all the ticket files in one email, I printed them out and took them with me. Each ticket is on 1 sheet of A4 format.

Tickets purchased online for regional trains are already confirmed and do not need to be validated, this is another plus. But their duration is reduced: not 6 hours, but only 4, and it begins from the departure time of the train selected when booking. And another huge plus: online tickets contain almost all the necessary information - date, time, train number. At the station you will only have to look at the platform number.

That is, you can see with the naked eye how convenient a ticket purchased online is.

Ticket inspectors check tickets on trains often, but somehow it is systematized, that is, if the controller went through the train once, and the trip was long, then I don’t remember that he passed a second time, although there are many stations and passengers were boarding all the time.

I also bought tickets for Trenitalia on the Trenitalia website, this also applies to the box office: when I needed to buy several tickets at once further along the route, then at the same box office I bought both for Trenitalia and Trenord trains at the same time.

throughout Lombardy - the provinces of Milan, Monza, Como, Vigevano, Lecco, Bergamo, Brescia, Mantua, Lodi, Cremona, Pavia and Varese, as well as Piacenza, which is not included in Lombardy, but only if you enter from Milan and Lodi.

The quality of trains does not depend on the company: Trains are double-decker,

and the compositions of Trenitalia are old and well-worn. But each train has soft seats and toilets. To enter/exit the carriage, you must either press a button or press a lever (this is for older trains).

In the new trains, each carriage has screens with information about the next station and dubbing is heard on the radio,

and in the older ones you go to yourself - where to get off, when? Therefore, in such cases, all control should be left to yourself and it is necessary to monitor the time of arrival at the desired station and read its name on the platform.

If I remember anything else, I’ll add it.

The metro in Milan (Metropolitana di Milano) appeared in 1964. Underground highways densely cover the city and even lead beyond its borders. Four lines, more than a hundred stations, serve to save residents and guests of the city time spent on travel.

The Milan metro has a total railway track length of about 95 km. Moreover, there are both underground and above-ground sections of the route. On the metro map you can see 4 lines.

Red (line M1, Linea M1)

It was with her that the metro in Milan began. Construction work started in 1957, with the goal of opening the first subway section to passengers in 1964. Line M1 has a length of 27 km, connecting the northeast with the northwest of the city, while there is also a small branch towards the southwest..

Starting station: Sesto 1º Maggio, ending stations: Rho Fiera and Bisceglie

There are a total of 37 stations within the Red Line. By following this line you can switch to the Green Line (Loreto, Cardona station) and the Yellow Line (Duomo station).

Green (line M2, Linea M2) It stretches over 39.5 km and has 35 stations.

The carriages of this line can travel from the northeast to the south of Milan. The terminal stations of this line are Gessate, Cologno Nord, Milanofiori Forum, Abbiategrasso.

Several stations in the southern direction are ground-based. The metro on the section Famagosta - Milanofiori Forum smoothly turns into a commuter service between Milan and the town of Assago. Yellow (line M3, Linea M3) Length - 17 km, has only 21 stations. A relatively new line was built in 1990 to connect the north and south of Milan.

Line boundaries: Comasina station in the north and San Donato station in the south.

Moving along the M3 line, you can make transfers to other metro lines: line M1 (Duomo station, Duomo), line M2 (Centrale station), line M5 (Zara station, Zara). Lilac (line M5, Linea M5)

Milan's newest metro line, which went into operation at the beginning of 2013

. The locomotives of this line operate fully automatically without the participation of human drivers. This transport line leads from the northeast of the city to the west. The movement is carried out within the framework of: Bignami and (San Siro Stadio). Intersection stations with other lines: Zara (M3), Garibaldi (FS, M2) and Loto (M1).

Line M4

Milan's metro system is connected to the city train line "Passante Ferroviario", having 8 ground stations on their route.

You can also use the 14th suburban lines (Linee ferroviarie suburbane Milano) within the city. A detailed diagram can be viewed on the official website www.trenord.it

Helpful information

The M1 line will be the most useful for tourists., since in the immediate vicinity of its stations there are the main ones: the Victor Emmanuel II Gallery, exhibition complexes.

Lines M2 and M3 (Centrale station) suitable for those who want to quickly get to (Milano Centrale).

Opening hours

From 06:00 to 00:30, trains depart with a break of 5 to 10 minutes. Two holidays a year: December 25 and May 1, shorten the working day: from 07:00 to 19:30.

How much are the tickets

It will be useful for tourists who decide to visit Milan to know that the transport company ATM serves not only the metro, but other types of urban transport: buses, trams, electric trains.

• Therefore, a traveler can buy tickets valid for all types of municipal transport: City ticket (Biglietto Urbano)
• - costs 1.5 euros, valid for 90 minutes after composting. Suitable for one trip by ground transport, metro or city train. Ticket for 10 trips (Carnet 10 viaggi)
• - costs 13.80 euros and is good for 10 trips of 90 minutes. Travel conditions are similar to the City Ticket. Ticket for 4 trips (BI4 Biglietto integrato per 4 viaggi)
• - costs 6.00 euros, for 4 trips of 90 minutes. 1 day ticket (Biglietto giornaliero)
• - costs 4.50 euros, good for 24 hours after composting. Suitable for all types of urban transport, including trains. Ticket for 2 days (Biglietto bigiornaliero)
• - costs 8.25 euros, good for 48 hours from the moment of composting. The conditions are the same as for a 1-day ticket. Ticket 2x6 (Settimanale 2x6)
• - costs 10.00 euros, allows you to make 2 trips within 6 consecutive days. If the ticket has not been used on 1 or more days of the week, you can use it on Sunday. Evening ticket (Biglietto serale)

- costs 3.00 euros, valid from 20:00 until the metro closes. A travel card will greatly facilitate the use of metro services - refillable plastic card “RicaricaMi”

It is important to remember that paper and electronic tickets must be validated at the beginning of the trip. Controllers are actively working in the metro, which can impose on the “hare” fine of 100.00 euros!

Where can I buy a ticket

You can buy a ticket or top up your card at special machines inside metro stations. In total, there are about 2,200 ticket sales points in Milan: tobacco and newspaper kiosks, bars, bus stops. In addition, sending SMS with the text “ATM” to number 48444, will allow you to pay for: a single trip on the metro for 1.50 euros.

You can plan your trip, view a metro map, and check ticket prices on the metro website. The resource supports Italian and English. Basic information in Russian is presented in this article. 🙂

• Official site: www.atm.it
• Online metro map: www.giromilano.atm.it

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This evening I begin a long (otherwise it won’t work) and, I hope, interesting story about a trip to Lombardy in January 2015. In fact, attentive readers have already seen the first signs of the upcoming inevitable Lombard epic in the lengthy story about the Ambrosian rite (and then three posts). It’s clear that I could only practice this ritual in Milan and its environs...

The trip to Milan turned out to be full of surprises. Initially, tickets were taken from Alitalia for the flight St. Petersburg-Rome-Milan and back on January 01 and January 7, respectively. Our State Duma has repeatedly frightened us by shortening the New Year holidays, but extending them in the form of vacation at our work is strictly prohibited, which is why initially (spring 2014) the run through Lombardy was planned to be so short. But sometime in the summer of 2014, Alitalia predictably acknowledged their impotence in their inability to operate flights from St. Petersburg to Rome in winter, and they also refused to change tickets for Aeroflot flights they sold without additional payment. As a result, Alitalia was sent on a long-distance sex tour, although, to their credit, they returned the money within three days.

Instead of Alitalia, Lufthansa undertook to take me: more or less acceptable tickets were at that moment for January 01 and 09, and, although at that time the exact dates of the New Year holidays were still unknown, I decided to take a risk. In this case, I was clearly entitled to champagne: the holidays ended up stretching all the way up to January 10 inclusive, and I didn’t have to take time off from work: the trip clearly ended during the holidays.

This time I flew there via Frankfurt, and back via Dusseldorf. When selling tickets, Lufthansa honestly warned that the return flights Milan-Dusseldorf and Dusseldorf-St. Petersburg were operated by their daughter Germanwings, but I didn’t even pay attention to this: both daughter and mother - as long as they got there. As it turned out on the return flight, Germanwings is a low-cost airline with all the expected amenities: passengers on board who slept the entire trip because they were not supposed to have food at all; luggage racks packed to capacity (carry-on luggage is free, but luggage costs extra money); delays and worries. I had a Lufthansa ticket, and my luggage was for nothing, I was even supposed to have lunch: one sandwich, one 0.2 liter bottle of water and one glass of tea; for everything else I had to pay (what else! We had a crisis raging, and I saved on everything).

The Milan-Dusseldorf plane was at most one-third full, and mostly the passengers were compatriots who, like me, had chosen a connection in Dusseldorf. At the time planned for landing, we had not even begun to descend; the delay ended up being half an hour. And only 55 minutes were allotted for docking. The men were smoking and freaking out, the women were drinking and were indignant, but the general hope was that the airport in Dusseldorf is small, we will only need to go through passport control, and we will make it in time.

No matter how it is! It was necessary to wander around the airport for a long, long time in order to eventually go through a personal search. In those days, there were terrorist attacks in Paris, and security measures were clearly strengthened. And since the scrupulous Germans took up the matter, the inspection threatened to be long and painful. First, they put me in a glass jar where they scanned me (well, now let the burghers, who have admired my biceps and abs, eat out the baldness of their fat-bellied burghers, that’s how they do it!); then they also groped me because the scanner didn’t like something (as it turned out, the scanner didn’t like the cross on my neck). The backpack was examined with passion: after all, without suspecting a second inspection, I bought alcohol at the Milan airport; The duty free packaging had just not been examined with a magnifying glass. And the departure time of my plane was rapidly approaching! Finally, having gone through these ordeals, I ran to the gate, looking for passport control along the way (otherwise you will slip past, then prove that you have left the Schengen zone As it turned out, only two outer gates are open for departure from Schengen in Dusseldorf, in front of which passport control was set up. Here our compatriots smoked and drank and became indignant again, because the German border guard didn’t care that we were in a hurry. I was calm about this moment, like a mummy from the Capuchin Catacombs: firstly, the landing was delayed (it wasn’t even shown on the board), and secondly, in the evening of the same day there was another plane flying to St. Petersburg, so I would have gotten there anyway home.

To put an end to this nervous part of the story, I’ll say right away that everything ended well: the landing was delayed by almost an hour, so everyone made it in time. Moreover, we apparently had a tailwind blowing from us, because we arrived in St. Petersburg ahead of schedule.

Now about Milan. There, as you probably know, there are two airports: Linate (within the city, a regular city bus goes to the center from there) and Malpensa (far from the city). I flew in and out of Malpensa. Special Malpensa Express trains run to Malpensa from two city stations: the one that goes to Cadorna station is really an express train (about half an hour, a couple of stations along the way, and sometimes not a single intermediate stop at all); the one that goes to Milano Centrale makes a bunch of stops and takes 50 minutes. For logistical reasons, however, it was convenient for me to take the train to and from Centrale.

The fact is that on this trip Milan itself did not interest me (except for two liturgies in the cathedral and a free visit to Brera on the first Sunday of the month), but endless travel around Lombardy was planned. Therefore, I did not splurge on a hotel in the center, but booked the cheapest of the decent ones - Hotel Vienna (available on Booking, 35 euros per night) near Milano Lambrate station. Trains from all the train directions I needed (except Varese) went through Lambrate, which was literally a three-minute walk away. And for trips into the city for the three specified purposes, there was a metro station nearby. If we translate Milanese realities into St. Petersburg ones, then we can say that I lived approximately on Udelnaya, only long-distance trains do not stop here at the latter.

Of course, you could get from Centrale (and from Cadorna) to Lambrate by metro. But, firstly, we already had a crisis, and every euro counted, and, secondly, I still left the hotel before the metro opened. Therefore, a hiking trip from Centrale to Lambrate was planned in advance: https://goo.gl/maps/pJeVz. I relied on my memory and didn’t take the map out of my backpack, so I made an extra detour through the Lima metro station. As a result, instead of 30 minutes, I walked for about 50 minutes. Both there and back (I didn’t allow any detours back) it was an extraordinary walking walk: on the evening of January 1, as in the early morning of January 9, Milan was as if dead: no pedestrians, no there are very few open shops and very few cars. And Porpora Street - the main part of my route - was not particularly beautiful, so Milan immediately opened up to me from its, uh, unpretentious side.

A lot of bad things have been written about the Vienna Hotel on Booking, but, in my opinion, such reviews were written by very picky people. Clean rooms, kind service, a very quiet street, there are a lot of eating places nearby (I always ate at the La Cuccagna trattoria - the corner of Giovanni Pacini and Giuseppe Ponzio streets, I highly recommend it), the railway and metro are nearby, and for those who want adventure - right from Lambrate There is an old-fashioned tram to the Duomo. True, breakfast, air conditioning and internet are for extra. money, but they give fair warning about this in advance. I didn’t need air conditioning and the Internet, and for 5 euros I ate my fill at breakfast.

Recommended reading:
1. Morton "From Milan to Rome." I’ve praised it many times, but I can’t resist this time either. A witty author, a lot of historical information, a lot of travel impressions, sheer optimism and good English humor.
2. Muratov “Images of Italy”. It’s heavy, but it fills your head with useful information, which is why it’s useful. Sometimes the author gets “stuck” and spends several pages talking about the unknown work of an unknown author with a name that is difficult to pronounce. Most often, such an author dates back to the period of the XIV-XVI centuries.
3. Ippolitov “Especially Lombardy”. An author with monstrous conceit and narcissism, which is why his book is often called “Especially Ippolitov.” Still priceless in places.
4. LJ authors.